Magna Charter
Marriott Edgar's comic monologue showing the real story behind England's greatest gift to democracy
Video not yet publicly available
Recorded in August 2025, this will be uploaded to the video gallery in the coming months to watch for free - together with many, many other tales.
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Magna Charter (aka "Carta" or "Charta"), one of the many monologues written by Marriott Edgar which I enjoyed in my youth.
More about the comic monologues on my website, and how I began to perform them.
Abaht them 'ere monologues lists all of Marriott Edgar's poems with links to their texts, plus a few by other authors.
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